The Fire Seekers by Richard Farr

Author:Richard Farr [Farr, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery
ISBN: 9781477847732
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Goodreads: 22341278
Publisher: Skyscape
Published: 2014-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

The protesters are there all day now, dawn to dusk, in their two groups: on the north corner of the block, the traditionals, as someone has recently dubbed them; a house-width further down, their opponents the Seraphim. They leave each other alone, mostly, but not everyone leaves us alone. After the third or fourth creepy call on our landline, we change the number. Then a visibly deranged guy shows up at the back door, tries to set light to it with the bottle of grain alcohol he’s drinking, only manages to set light to himself. (“I’b doin it fuh Jesus,” he shouts, through a column of greasy smoke, waving the bottle as small blue flames dance up his arm, across his shoulder, into his hair. I put him out with the first thing that comes to hand, a gallon of two-percent milk that’s sitting in a grocery bag in the hallway. When a fire truck shows up, he actually complains to the paramedic about how the milk has ruined his shirt.) After that I persuade Dad to call a security company. I spend an entire afternoon supervising them as they change all the locks and upgrade the alarm system.

Everyone’s expecting a statement from Quinn by now, but several days go by: he seems to be waiting for the airwaves to clear. When he does react, it’s with a kind of icy, Olympian disdain. Doesn’t mention Dad, the translations, the demonstrations. He just issues a media release to every news outlet on the planet.

No doubt it’s inspiring, if you’re either Seraphim or Seraphim-curious. If not, it’s just terrifying:

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